SETI, Aliens and the Origins of Life

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2012

⏱️ 60 minutes

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How do we look for life beyond Earth? And how did it first get started down here? To help us take on these big questions, we explore the science of SETI and the chemistry of creating life. Plus, science gets cinematic as we meet the scientific adviser for Prometheus, and find out how his work could help us understand alien atmospheres. In the news, how to sequence a baby using just the mother's blood, and the simple intervention that could prevent millions of malaria cases. In Question of the Week, can we create life in the lab from just elements and heat? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:26.0	T.S.B. proud partners of the Pride of Britain Awards. Stripping down science, the naked scientists. This week we're searching for E.T. Cetti Director Jill Tartar will be explaining how to look for signs of life in deep space.
1:04.7	We talk to the scientific advisor on the alien prequel Prometheus and we're exploring the chemistry
1:10.2	that may have spawned life on earth in the first place.
1:13.0	Hello, it's Sunday June the 10th and welcome to the naked scientists.
1:17.0	I'm Katani and also here this week is Chris Smith.
1:20.0	Hello and coming up in the news this week how researchers have used a blood
1:24.9	sample from a pregnant woman to sequence the genome of her baby before it's
1:30.1	even been born why a pregnant woman's immune system doesn't attack her developing
1:35.5	child with new insights on that, and a way to help dyslexics to read more easily.
1:41.6	Manipulation of letter spacing is easy to implement.
1:45.2	We don't see why publisher might not print out books with wider spacing that would be very easy and feasible to do.
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2:02.0	On the web at UKfast.co.uk.
2:05.0	In a 1959 paper entitled Searching for Interstellar Communications
2:16.0	published in the journal Nature,
2:18.0	two Cornell researchers,
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